Miss Read
Changes At Fairacre

Times are changing in the charming downland village of Fairacre, and Miss Read isn't certain that it's all for the best. The new commuter lifestyle has caused a drop in attendance at the local school, and officials are threatening closure. Miss Read worries about the failing health of Dolly Clare. Vegetable gardens have given way to trips to the Caxley markets, and the traditional village fete now includes a prize for best quiche. But despite all the innovations, Fairacre still retains its essential elements: gentle wit, good manners, and the comfort of caring neighbours.

Jean M. Auel
The Shelters Of Stone

The fifth and final part of the Earth's Children® sequence. After their epic journey across Europe, Ayla and Jondalar have reached his home, the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old Stone Age settlement in the region known today as south-west France. Jondalar's family greet him warmly, but they are wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses.

• The long-awaited fifth book in the hugely successful Earth's Children series.

Impeccable research makes this much more than a fantasy reconstruction ofprehistoric life' - DAILY EXPRESS
A rewarding read. A brilliant work of imagination'- GOOD Book Guide

Charlotte Bingham
Daughters Of Eden

Daughters of Eden focuses on the lives and fortunes of four very different young women at the outbreak of.the Second World War. Marjorie, left at a boarding school by her emigrating mother; plain Poppy, pushed into marriage with a mean-spirited aristocrat; Kate, despised by her father, but determined to prove herself; and man-mad Lily, who turns out to be the bravest of them all. That all of them are chosen to work undercover for the espionage unit at a beautiful stately home is a surprise, not least to them. At Eden Park they not only meet each other, but become involved with three unusual young men.